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Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.

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Shortest path found

Serena Williams
reaches
Ashley Harkleroad

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 1 link and 2 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

324 players examined
  1. 2 meetings20August 7, 2006 — May 26, 2008
    View Serena Williams × Ashley Harkleroad →

How we calculate it

A search from both sides of history.

The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.

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